Offerme Offers Something New! (china trade)

November 23rd, 2008 admin Posted in retail |

By Offerme

It is high time to change the face of online shopping!

A radical move is needed to revolutionalize the way buyers and sellers transact business. And Offerme did jus that.

Offerme is the pioneer of online commerce, using Ecommerce 2.0, everyone will benefit. How? Buyers now have the capacity to list the product they want to purchase along with price range they are willing to pay. Armed with this kind of information, sellers will assist them to find other buyers who prefer the same product and price. In this way, sellers have a higher possibility to make multiple sales. Both have access to negotiate and get the best deals.

You will no longer leave the site even if you cant find an item you like. Because once registered on Offerme, you can simply request for an item and wait for the best possible offers! You can also haggle or negotiate to get the beat deals! No more nail-biting bidding/auction games. Sellers, on the other hand, will be able to see the number of buyers who want to buy a certain product. They can now gage the consumers demand and keep on track the market trend. Whats more, we have no listing fees; no sale, no charge policy. So you dont have to worry on looking for buyers or pay anything unless you successfully make a sale!

Offerme also joins the social networking world. This is a great avenue to interact, better transact business and ultimately get everyone happy and satisfied. As a member of Youtube, we find this as an alternative help service and information guide. (Sellers will have a way of showcasing their product, buyers can interrelate and negotiate) And just like in Facebook and MySpace, we want to create a community where we can send messages, inform upcoming events, update each other, and other user information. So add us up to your account and know first-hand the Offerme difference!

Now THIS is shopping online like no other.

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How the 5 Fanciest Sports Shops in the USA Began
By Dave Southern

The Sports Authority, Gart Sports Company, Dicks Clothing and Sporting Goods, Academy Sports and Outdoors and Cabelas are USAs fanciest sports shops.

Read and catch some hint of how five of USAs fanciest sports stores began.

THE SPORTS AUTHORITY, INC.

The Sports Authority, Inc. is the largest sporting goods retailer, with its offering of the most complete line of products for sports enthusiasts. It was in 1987 that Jack Smith, then chairman of Herman’s World of Sports, opened its first Sports Authority shop in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Smith applied the idea that made Home Depot a hit in his conceptualization of the Sports Authority.

Three years later Smith already had eight giant stores in Florida. That same year, Joseph Antonini, former CEO of Kmart Corporation, backed him up by acquiring the sporting goods small chain for 75 million dollars. With enough capital, Smith designed an expansion plan that soon made The Sports Authority rise to a hundred stores in four years.

Almost 140 shops are scattered all over US and Canada that bear over nine hundred famous brands including K2, Nike, Adidas, and Coleman. With its sturdy finances and technological advantage, The Sports Authority continues to lead the sporting goods industry.

GART SPORTS COMPANY

The Gart Sports Company is United States second largest company specializing in the retail of sports equipment and goods. Its creator Nathan Gart, and his family moved from Russia to Colorado. Nathan sold newspapers and utilized his earnings to buy and sell watches and rings from his patrons. Saving an ample amount of capital, Nathan purchased a tiny, limited-spaced shop worth 500 dollars at downtown Denver in 1928. He then launched Gart Bros. which is a family business focusing on selling outdoor sporting merchandise such as camping, hunting, and fishing gears. A pocket knife was Nathans first sale.

Before long the shop developed into a family business in a new direction. Nathans brother George joined him in 1932, his brother Kibby two years after and another brother, Melvin joined in 1946. That same year, the company turned into Gart Bros. Sporting Goods Co.

Gart Sports Company introduced its first Sports Castle store, a renowned, pioneering superstore in downtown Denver in 1971.

Gart Sports Company merged with Sportmart, Inc. in 1998. It has now more than 180 stores located in Western and Midwestern America under the Oshmans, Gart Sports, and Sportmart names.

DICKS CLOTHING AND SPORTING GOODS

In 1948, Richard “Dick” Stack created the Dick’s Clothing and Sporting Goods. He was 18. The owner of the Army and Navy shop where Dick was a salesman asked him if its feasible for the store to offer fishing gear. Young Dick devised a business plot over a series of nights without sleep. When he approached the store owner with his plan, the owners reaction was surprising. Dick was taken aback to hear from the owner that he would never be a good businessman.

Frustrated Dick found comfort in his grandmother who after learning Dicks story, pulled out her savings worth $300 from a cookie jar, gave it to her grandson, and encouraged him to pursue his dreams. Dick then used the cash in opening his humble fishing gear store in Binghamton, New York.

After ten years and inspired by his faithful customers, Dick expanded his merchandise scale that include a large amount of what is offered at Dicks Sporting Goods stores nowadays. Presently, the company has more than 300 stores situated in 30 plus states nationwide.

ACADEMY SPORTS & OUTDOORS

Academy Sports & Outdoors started its business in 1970. Arthur Gochman, an attorney, and his business associate bought Southern Sales, a chain of army and navy surplus that included 6 shops that was already into business failure. The idea of surplus business was learned by Arthur from his father, Max who then operated a chain of surplus outlets. In 1973, Arthur took over from his business associate. He then gave the company its commercial name Academy Corp., the name that he borrowed from his father’s shops.

Arthur gave up law in 1978 and transferred to Houston where Academy store is located to take on full control of the business. He ceased the selling of military surplus items and soon responded to new market trends of latest lifestyles. With the soaring prevalence of leisure wardrobe and sports footwear, Academy began offering sports apparel and goods, as well. The 1980s found the company transforming into a chain of stores supplying a varied and economically priced gamut of branded, superior sporting goods and apparel that gave the Academy Sports & Outdoors the perfect picture that remains until now.

CABELAS

Cabelas is the globes leading company to deliver the finest outdoor equipment and supplies. The story of Cabela’s spawned from modest domestic beginnings. In 1961, Dick Cabela bought a set of fishing flies at a furniture show and thought its a good idea to sell them. When he came back home in Chappel, Nebraska, he placed an advertisement in a newspaper offering 12 hand-tied flies for 1 dollar. Inadvertently, Dick took the initial measure in making a thriving mail-order business and a multi-billion dollar venture.

Toiling at their kitchen table, Dick and his wife Mary began filling orders from sports lovers here and there in US. As demand for the fishing flies rose, Dick bought other outdoor leisure goods and sent a catalog of other merchandise offered. Their inventory escalated quickly as multitude of orders was generated from the catalog mailed. The following year, there was a requirement for a warehouse to meet the demand.

Cabelas expansion is unstoppable with almost 80 catalogs delivered each year, and its online division soars higher.

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